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Number of resettled Bhutanese marks 50000, says IOM

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 10:19 AM PDT

Altogether 50,527 exiled Bhutanese refugees from various refugee camps of Jhapa and Morang have left for different countries under the ongoing third country resettlement program.

Three stars of resettlement : From left, chief of IOM at Damak David Derthick, US Envoy to Nepal Scott H DeLisi and UNHCR Representative in Nepal Stephane Jaquemet (File photo : Vidhyapati Mishra)

The United States has taken the biggest number of refugees, informed a source at the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) that has been processing the logistics for resettling refugees.

As of now, 42,601 Bhutanese have been resettled in various US states.

Meanwhile, Australia has resettled 2844 refugees, Canada 3317, Denmark 488, the Netherlands 229, New Zealand 564, Norway 373 and the United Kingdom 111.

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, still around 60,000 refugees from Bhutan continue to stay in Nepal.